TiSFF – Day 10

Malabar

Maximilian Badier-Rosenthal, France
22′25”

One evening in the suburbs, Mourad and Harisson return home when they accidentally crash into an old man.

 

Titan

Valéry Carnoy, Belgium
19′

Nathan is thirteen years old boy. Driven by his new friend Malik, he prepares himself for a strange ritual to become a member of a teens gang.

 

Out of Time

Delphine Montaigne, France
9′

This time, Felix is risking a lot. The director summoned his mother and threatened to deny him the access to the establishment. But what could Felix have done? And what kind of establishment is it exactly?

 

Turn of the Tide

Christine Grulois, Belgium
28′

Elena’s children, Nina and Victor, are leaving for Scout camp. For Elena and her daughter the separation is not an easy one. Nina is concerned about how her mother will cope with their absence. Instead of going on a cycling trip with friends, Helena decides to face her solitude…

 

Sukar

Ilias El Faris, France
11′

Casablanca’s beach, Morocco. Teenager’s desire for each other is growing discreetly. Adults and children oversee. A fight creates a diversion.

 

Teo, My Neighbor

Christos Karteris, Greece
14′

Teo lives next door. He enjoys isolation. He chooses to live at his own, unique pace. He dreams of finding a person like him.

 

The Weight of the Sea

Kostis Alevizos, Greece
16′40”

A teenage girl, in an every day routine, takes the same old bus from her house to the beach and back again, on her back she carries a small container in which she collects fresh sea water. When she comes back in the house the door closes behind her, leaving us confronted with the closed door. During the movie we will witness this daily route, we wont have a glimpse of what’s going on inside the house, not until the last moment.

 

The Affair

Victor Leonidis, United Kingdom
12′

A one-shot meta-comedy film. A student film crew attempts to shoot a heartfelt drama, but the director’s delusions of grandeur push everyone to their breaking point.

 

Leonidas & the Fish

Alexander Machlouzarides-Shalit, Cyprus
12′30”

A Cypriot boy’s perception of life changes when he catches a big fish.

 

Potted Palm Trees

Rosa Friedrich, Austria
20′

Alf marries someone else. And nobody wants Betti’s baby. The ballroom is jam-packed and the mood alarmingly good. Something is about to burst. The pregnant belly of deaf Betti? Her stepfathers’s patience? Or the wine-filled bladder of his ex-wife?

 

Daughters

Yulia Kalinina, Russia
15′

Six months after their father’s funeral two sisters Zhenya and Sasha are trying to cope with their loss and deal with the inheritance, while plunging into the world of their childhood memories.

 

Phélia

Elia Kalogianni, Netherlands
17′

A night shift security guard in Athens, attempts to escape her suffocating routine by introducing a more intimate relationship into her life. She will soon realize that when it comes to human contact, a scheduled routine is not always the answer.

 

Caterpillar Summer

Laetitia Demessence, Canada
16′

At the end of summer vacation, Rosie decides to undertake a metamorphosis to hide the after-effects of her illness. While her mother tries to take control of the situation, the young teenager buries herself in the ground to be reborn transformed.

 

Happy

Julie Anastasopoulou, Greece
8′29”

Αggeliki, a lonely and kind of quirky woman, who has lost her dog “Happy” a long time ago, makes the decision to stop looking for him. During that special night, she finds something magical that ordinary people are not able to see.